Qingdao

A city where time slows down, beer is sold by weight in plastic bags, brides and grooms take pictures, lots of brides and grooms take lots of pictures, your dinner swims contentedly in tanks, happily oblivious to what is about to befall it, a stroll down cobblestoned alleys brings you back to memories of Bavaria, the air smells of sea, and the sand is hot beneath your feet.